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home or they can take a larger amount 

 if they wish to pay for it. 



Another Excellent Plan. 



In some .of the continental countries 

 of Europe the sportsmen of a village 

 combine to rent the shooting and they 

 all shoot a good lot of game. After the 

 shoot abundant game is sold to pay the 

 expenses, which consist of the small 

 shooting rental and wages of the game 

 keepers. The cheapest shooting, of 

 course, is partridge, rabbit and hare 

 shooting, since the game breeds abun- 

 dantly in a wild state when protected 

 from vermin. Game always is so plenti- 

 ful that it sells for very little and the 

 shooters pay for the game they take 

 home. They all have excellent shooting 

 and since the game they purchase at the 

 end of the shoot is cheaper than poultry 

 or meat the shooting really costs little 

 or nothing. In other words, they stop 

 a butcher's bill larger than the cost of 

 their sport. 



An Important Matter. 



The important matter is that they 

 shoot without exterminating the game. 

 They, of course, shoot with the farmer's 

 permission and the farmers are paid a 

 little for the right to shoot, just as thou- 

 sands of American farmers are paid by 

 American sportsmen who conduct game 

 shooting clubs. 



Any trap shooting club or game pro- 

 tection society easily can form a game 

 shooting club and have excellent and in- 

 expensive shooting if the game is re- 

 stored and properly looked after. Some 

 of our game shooting clubs meet at a 

 country hotel where they have a special 

 rate for board and lodging, and where 

 quail is the game shot the dues are very 

 small since the quail breed abundantly 

 in a wild state. 



Good Advice. 



The Game Conservation Society and 

 The Game Breeder always are ready to 

 advise sportsmen of generous behavior 

 how to organize game shooting clubs 

 and to deal fairly with the farmers. 

 The advertisers in The Game Breeder 



supply stock birds and eggs, and when 

 a little food is planted for the game and 

 the cats and other vermin are not per- 

 mitted to eat it, the shooting, of course, 

 is excellent every season. We are al- 

 ways glad to have sportsmen visit game 

 shooting clubs, and the free shooting of- 

 ten is excellent in the vicinity of a club 

 where there is any wild or unoccupied 

 land. 



Expensive Game. 



There can be no doubt that the pheas- 

 ant is the most expensive game to pro- 

 duce in America as it is in other coun- 

 tries. Owen Jones was right in saying 

 that partridge shooting will remain the 

 most popular form of sport because it is 

 cheap. 



Grouse and quail bred wild in pro- 

 tected fields and woods can be produced 

 abundantly far cheaper than hand-reared 

 pheasants or even wild ducks are pro- 

 duced. 



All capable state game officers admit 

 that it is not possible to keep quail and 

 grouse shooting open if no one looks 

 after the birds and gives them proper 

 protection. The state reports are filled 

 with recommendations for closed seasons 

 for a term of years, and usually it is 

 deemed necessary to extend the term 

 when it expires. The close tillage of 

 the farms, no covers or foods being left 

 for the game, is as fatal to upland game 

 as the draining of marshes is to duck 

 shooting. 



How state game officers can be ex- 

 pected to provide even a half dozen 

 pheasants for a gunner who pays one 

 dollar is beyond our comprehension. No 

 club with careful business management 

 ever has been able to provide one pheas- 

 ant for a dollar. It should be remem- 

 bered always that club pheasants are 

 not to a large extent eaten by vermin 

 as state pheasants always are when lib- 

 erated. 



(From the Buffalo Enquirer) 

 Come to think of it, the majority of 

 the League of Nations are "wet"' nations. 



